Temporary Detransitioning (Brief)
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Shiver takes another slow, steadying breath, and allows it to fill the breadth of them. Their tentacles are curling at the tips, both from the battering wind and from their newfound lightness; when they roll their neck, the ends just barely kiss their shoulders instead of hanging thick and pleated down their back. Their face feels fragile, almost, without the layer of pasty makeup they’re used to wearing around the palace — but as they catch their reflection in a half-frozen tide pool, it looks more honest, too. It’s like they can recognize their own eyes, now, anticipate the twinkle there before it comes.
And Shiver knows, standing fifty paces from the shoreline with their chest bound for the first time in months, with a pocket knife in their right hand and blood still dripping from their freshly-cut tentacles, that either they’ll return from this with the title of heir, or they won’t return at all.
OR: The Hohojiros' rightful ruler comes once in a generation: sacred and skilled, with complete dominion over the ocean. After years of soul-searching, Shiver returns to their homeland and its frigid waters to prove themselves worthy.